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Indian origin minister Anita Anand on Canadian PM Carney’s team for Indian visit
Anand was in Delhi in Oct. 2025 on a two-day official visit and held talks with Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.
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Ishani Duttagupta - Tue, 24, Feb 2026
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Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada / Courtesy: Ishani Duttagupta
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who arrives in India on Feb. 26, will be accompanied by high-profile Indian-Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand. Prime Minister Carney, who will first visit Mumbai and then New Delhi, will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit.
The leaders will focus on elevating and expanding the Canada-India relationship, with ambitious new partnerships in trade, energy, technology and artificial intelligence (AI), talent and culture, and defense, according to a press release from the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi. PM Carney will meet with business leaders to identify investment opportunities in Canada and create new partnerships between businesses in both nations.
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“I will be returning to India with the Prime Minister this week to further diversify trade and to unlock additional opportunities for Canadians, including by elevating all sectors of the Canadian economy and enhancing our people-to-people ties,” Anand, who has held several high-profile Cabinet portfolios in the Canadian government in the past, including minister of innovation, science, and industry, minister of internal trade, minister of transport, minister of national defense, and minister of public services and procurement, said on social media platform X on the eve of the PM’s visit.
Anand was in Delhi in Oct. 2025 on a two-day official visit and held talks with Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on deepening economic cooperation, advancing bilateral relations, and establishing a framework for strategic cooperation on issues such as trade diversification, energy transformation, and security.
A member of the Liberal Party, Anand was first elected to Canada’s House of Commons in 2019 and represents the riding of Oakville East in Ontario. The first Hindu woman to be elected to Canada’s Parliament, she was a professor of law before her foray into politics.
“The visit of PM Carney along with Minister Anand will add renewed purpose and momentum to the Canada-India relationship. Minister Anand has already met key Indian ministers on her last visit and has started the dialogue. In fact, she was the first senior Canadian minister who started the re-engagement process with the Indian leadership. It was a bold step, and she is a true champion of Canada-India trade ties,” says Hemant Shah, a prominent member of the Indian diaspora in Canada and an expert on Canada-India trade issues.
He feels that the negotiations on the India-Canada Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) will receive a boost with PM Carney’s visit to India. At last year’s G20 leaders’ summit, Canada and India agreed to formally launch negotiations for the CEPA.
“Indian commerce and industry minister Goyal has had a call earlier this week with Canada’s minister of international trade, Maninder Sidhu, on advancing discussions related to the CEPA, which will emerge as one of the pillars of the India-Canada trade relationship. The Indian diaspora in Canada is likely to play a stronger and more important role in the relationship between the two countries in future," Shah said.
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